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When seniors from Amelia High School in Ohio began investigating a forgotten plaque on school grounds, they never expected that a former student's past could have such a lasting impact more than three decades after his death.

Brad Broughton, an alumnus and soldier who was killed during the Vietnam War in 1968, left his $10,000 GI insurance policy to the high school in Batavia, Ohio. The students who discovered his story have created a documentary about him.

Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Vicki Ciliberti, an English and broadcasting teacher at the 1,350-student high school near Cincinnati, was shooting a video clip of the school flagpole to use during the Pledge of Allegiance when...